opens his swimming pool - goes to the dentist: Jack Benny (April 6, 1952)

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“opens his swimming pool - goes to the dentist” is an episode of Jack Benny, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 6, 1952. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jack Benny and Rochester are cleaning out his swimming pool when Mary Livingstone arrives, and Jack's plans to refill it soon run into trouble over a frog and a flood of small charges. Dennis Day wants to swim, and Phil Harris raises a problem about his piano player, Bagby. Jack and Mary then head to the dentist, where Don Wilson and the quartet have already had their teeth pulled. The Jack Benny Program aired on NBC and CBS Radio, starring Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris, with the episode dated April 6, 1952. The episode's first half is a comedy of errors at the Benny estate and the dental office.

Jack Benny's home and swimming pool in Beverly Hills, then a dental office

Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Dr. Nelson, Bagby

Listen for: Jack's exchanges with Rochester over the frog and the pool, and the dentist's office scene

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.